Posts Tagged ‘ college ’

Colleges still have a few problems…

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June 28, 2011

I presented a few positive arguments regarding the continuing validity of the traditional liberal arts baccalaureate degree. Here is another side to the issue. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the criticisms of the traditional liberal arts degree (or aspects of the ‘education bubble’). But every article I have cited here has [...]


an education or your brand?

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May 20, 2011

Once again, there is yet another perspective of the nature of the higher education industry…in this post bubble era. One of the big questions is to consider whether spending lots of money at a very expensive liberal arts college is worth the investment (if only when compared to less expensive state colleges…albeit without the Ivy [...]


Higher Ed Crisis

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May 19, 2011

All of the talk about an education bubble seems to have brought a lot of perspectives out of the woods…There a perspectives about the societal level disfunctionalities in creating a class of graduating college seniors (or post grad!) who are starting out their professional lives saddled with enormous debt. There are perspectives about the changes [...]


a potpourri of online nuggets…

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December 14, 2010

Over the last couple of weeks I have been slowly accumulating some interesting bits of new from various online sources. I usually don’t keep my finger too close to the current events pulse, but since I have a couple, I guess that it’s time to look them over…  


I have some catching up to do…

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November 6, 2010

As a randomly occurring event, I sometimes find myself with too much on my plate. Over the years I have found myself in the situation where I was concurrently reading over 25 books at the same time (such is the stuff of my nightmares…). Lately I have found that I am in a comparable situation. [...]


iPad, college, online classes, et.al.

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October 29, 2010

My last few posts have been focused upon some of the emerging aspects of how learning may be changing. I am still in the midst of what could be seen as a (virtual) undergraduate class on the history of economic thought. I say virtual because while I will likely learn as much as if I [...]


why go to college?

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August 16, 2010

As a prospective high school teacher (read: unemployed teacher…), I don’t give college education as much focus as I probably should. From my most recent bout of college life I have come to the sad conclusion that the less I have to do with these organizations the better. I used to think that my perspectives [...]


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